Phew!!!
Reading this post, I thought for a minute there Audio Galaxy was actually closed down, pleased to see it's not.
The 'X' you're talking about drterror on the availability indicator just means that it's copyrighted material, it tells you this in the legend. I've d/loaded almost 2Gb of MP3's from Audio G and on a dial up 56K, which is not bad going.
You have to be creative with your searching on A/G.
I managed to get the new Eminem tune, Without Me only a few days after it had been released. It was on A/G but as you say drterror there was a big 'X' on the availability indicator. I think after a bit of searching about I got it under the name of "Out With Me", so it's kind of obvious what it is but seems to get past whatever search A/G do to check for copyrighted material. I've got loads of songs that way, although sometimes it does take a fair old bit of searching and sometimes I can't get the tune at all.
What I tend to do, as I'm only on a 56K, is limit my d/loads to one at a time, go to the A/G site, search through and pick my songs, then when I have about 20 or so in my list, run the satellite program and leave it over night to do it's d/loading. Most I've ever done in one go was 118 songs, now that took abit of time to d/load!!!
Audio Galaxy has changed a bit since I first used it, with more restrictions on availability but you can't really complain, as there is still plenty there and it's all free.
The f*cking RIAA want something better to do. If it's popular and people seem to be getting something for nothing (which we are

) then they have to stick there big fat noses in and try to put a stop to it. Hey, it's only a bunch of '1' s and '0' s who cares that when you stick them all together you get CD quality music out of it
I'm sure in the end Audio Galaxy (which I turned to when Napster went tits up) will end up just like Napster, a complete waste of time, then the search will be on for the next one that works. The best bit about A/G for me is the resume feature, used to hate being on Napster, get to 94% completed, the bloody connection would go down and I'd have to start again!!
Just my 2 cents worth.
....DreeM
